News Headlines - 12 November 2013

▽Typhoon Haiyan: Desperate survivors wait in the open for aid as rains return - Telegraph

Hundreds of thousands of people were spending their fifth night sleeping in the open in the Philippines last night as soldiers and aid workers struggled to deliver help to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

▽Japan's ex-PM Koizumi urges Abe to abandon nuclear power | Reuters

Former Japanese premier Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday urged his old deputy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to abandon nuclear power, adding to pressure on the government to re-consider its position on unpopular atomic energy. Koizumi was one of Japan's most popular prime ministers before he stepped down in 2006 and his comments carry influence among the general public and within the ruling bloc, led by his old Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

▽Electric car sales in the UK reach record high - Blue and Green Tomorrow

Electric car sales have risen by 25% in the third quarter of 2013, according to new figures. Over 1,100 people signed up for the government’s ￡5,000 plug-in car grant, the highest number since the scheme was introduced.

▽Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won | theguardian.com

Apple's maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US - despite the roasting that they were given when they first appeared in September 2012. But Google - which was kicked off the iPhone after it refused to give Apple access to its voice-driven turn-by-turn map navigation - has lost nearly 23m mobile users in the US as a result. That is a huge fall against the 81m Google Maps mobile users it had there at its peak in September last year, according to ComScore, a market research company, which produced the figures from regular polls of thousand of users.

▽In pictures: London's Science Museum opens Large Hadron Collider exhibition - The Independent

'Collider' is a new exhibition at the London's Science Museum, which shows a theatre, video and sound art installation and artefacts from the Large Hadron Collider, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva.